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There was a store by the train station at Seneca Ave. and Palmetto St. in Ridgewood. I would take a paper from the rack in the street and place the money in the cigar box. I would then proceed 5 blocks to Knickerbocker Ave. to the firehouse and be lucky if my car was still there at the end of...

Plus the fact that Engine 299 had a hose wagon.

The 1975 Mack's were the first engines with power steering.

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It was a great place to work in the late 1960s.

Also Engine 271. Several probies were pulling up to the firehouse for the first time from proby school. The company was out and the door locked and the kitchen was well involved. Our unit was responding second due and the diesel tank dropped off the rig. We finally stalled out a few blocks...

This rig was replaced with a 1972 Mack which was in service when Ladder 112 moved in but they did piggyback with Ladder 732 for 9 hours each day with the 1969 Mack.

Eng. 291 should be in the mix.

Mine also a few years later in '41. His first assignment was a few feet away in 16 Truck.

My old home box growing up. E 294 is normally 3rd due and L 125 was 1st due years ago, followed by L 155.

I remember my father walking from Richmond Hill to Ridgewood when notified of a recall. The City was very quick to order a recall in those days because it cost nothing. There was no overtime pay.

The very quick '65 Mack pumpers, whistling down the street.

The lime green Macks from 1981 didn't have a scaling ladder but had a strange A Frame. It wasn't very popular and was replaced with an extension ladder shortly afterward.

RIP Lou. Besides being squared away, he was one of the nicest members who passed through when he was bouncing. If I recall well, I think he spent a little time with my father in Ladder 140 before he was promoted.

You have the tiller at Ladder 142 and a 2nd due box comes in at Broad Channel The unit's apparatus is a wooden aerial from the 1920's and you must sit up on a bench with no windshield for the 6-7 mile run down Crossbay Blvd. This could probably be repeated in many of the outlying ladder...